To sell, or not to sell?

The other morning I was here at my desk, pretending to be busy, and my ever-loving partner and wife came in carrying a small box. It was about the size of a deck of playing cards.

She snapped it open and held it before me and asked, “What’s this?”

Two rings were in the box. I went ahead and told her they were the wedding rings I wore when I was married to a couple of other women, although of course not at the same time.

“Why are you keeping them?” she asked.

Did she mean why was I keeping the rings?

“Yes, the rings. Why are you keeping these rings?”

Told her I didn’t even know I was keeping them. Hadn’t seen them in years. They’re way out of date. Expiration on that gold one was 1980.

She said, “Well, if they don’t mean anything to you, I don’t know why you’re hanging on to them.”

So what should I do with them? Pitch them in the trash? Give them away?

“Or sell them,” she said. “Put them on eBay.”

That’s an idea. That heavier one is hammered gold. Price of gold has rocketed since I bought that baby, and it wasn’t cheap in 1975. But wait a minute. Wouldn’t it be sort of tacky, to sell wedding rings on eBay?

“Well, you could give the money to your favorite charity,” she said. “But why don’t you ask the posters on your blog? They have opinions on everything else. See what they’d think about selling wedding rings.”

So that’s what I’m doing, posters. What should I do with these wedding rings from previous marriages? Would offering them on eBay be in bad taste?